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Am I the only one who read "Beware the narcoterrorists" and thought "beware the jabberwock"?
@beth: Thank you
@Watcher If you scroll through Barry's old cartoons on leftycartoons.com, some of the old ones are about Clinton, while some…
@Watcher: Much as I would like to have Obama or Clinton or even Dubya* back rather than the current wannabe…
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Category Archives: Race, racism and related issues
CNN’s Question Answers Itself
Hint: The one CNN felt it had to use a euphemism for, is worse. I haven’t been able to find a video of the entire segment, but here’s a clip of Tim Wise, the dude on the lower right:
“Being a Woman is Not a Tool to Punish or Humiliate Anyone”
Dilar Dirik has written a wonderful piece, Kurdish Men for Gender Equality, about a story involving Iran that is worth knowing about. In April of this year, a local court in Iran started sentencing male convicts to being dressed as … Continue reading →
Rape, Harassment, Race, Fear of Crime, and So On.
So a blog I subscribed to on (the soon to be late and lamented) Google Reader ages ago – mostly likely because I thought the author wrote something really excellent – recently began a new blog. Clicking over, I found … Continue reading →
Our Loving Each Other Would Not Be Now The Obstacle That It Was Then
This article in The New York Times, by Choe Sang-Hun, fascinates me: [Jasmine] Lee, 35, who was born Jasmine Bacurnay in the Philippines, made history in April when she became the first naturalized citizen — and the first nonethnic Korean — to win … Continue reading →
The Racism in this NRA Video Needs to be Called Out
I’ve seen this video written about in two places, The New York Times and The New Yorker. Neither of them takes on the video’s obvious (to me anyway) dog-whistle (and maybe not even dog-whistle) racism. First, there is the divide-and-conquer … Continue reading →
The Problem with Dog-Whistle Politics and Relying on Technical Deniability
We’ve discussed this before here many times, but John Holbo at Crooked Timber has a post up that’s so astoundingly good I wanted to draw everyone’s attention to it. The post is, “Political Dog-whistles Don’t Have An Off-Switch For The … Continue reading →
Blogging My Summer Classes: Changing Times and Words You’re Not Supposed to Say
My wife and I went last night to a farewell gathering for one of her cousins, who is moving with her husband to California. We were at Bar 13 in Manhattan, a place I havent been to since I gave … Continue reading →
Obama and Pot
David Maraniss‘ forthcoming biography of President Obama reports that in high school and college, Obama not only inhaled, he was a rather intense user. This quote from Penn Jillette is apropos: Do we believe, even for a second, that if … Continue reading →
‘Scuse Me, Great Nations Coming Through
Remember John Derbyshire? Of course you do! He’s the incredibly creepy guy who got fired from National Review Online for writing an incredibly racist screed for an online site frequented by Pat Buchanan and Steve Sailer. Anyhow, Derbyshire may have … Continue reading →
Something Awful
Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit drinking: An unidentified entrepreneur admits he is trying to profit off Trayvon Martin’s death by selling gun range targets featuring the teen who’s death has sparked a nationwide controversy. Although Martin’s … Continue reading →
I heavily criticized Obama for his drone strikes, but I do think there are legal (maybe not moral[?]) differences even…